So nobody from the DNC is watching on C-SPAN the Voter Values Summit at the Washington Hilton?

Faith in Public Life is.

The American Prospect is here and here.

PFAW's Right Wing Watch

The Carpetbagger Report

So maybe they’ve lost their way?

Instead of searching for Republicans who can ring all their hypocritical bells…that allow them to persecute gays and worship as a cult of the unborn…why don't they start agonizing over the suffering of sick, living children without health insurance or those maimed in Iraq?

I don't want to hear any more rhetoric from Christian Right leaders who support discrimination or war in the Middle East. If they can't find a Republican candidate who is as sanctimonious as they are, well, maybe that's just too bad.

Corrine,

I found this observation of Jim Wallis' presentation to the Faith in Life Conference quite interesting:

Wallis' approach to poverty - "3 legged stool " of government, church and private sector. Not a hint of applause. A little clapping for fatherhood initiatives, none for education, health care, wealth building. Living wages - not a peep from the audience. I infer from their response that they believe marriage will magically undo poverty.

Wallis' line connecting poverty and race, and call for repentance of racial sins, generates light but steady applause. I am genuinely surprised.

There seems to be more concern about racism than poverty. Perhaps there were some minorities in the room?

And perhaps all the assembled religous leaders are far too much into accumulating funds for their ministries....much as some of our candidates are for their campaigns?

Money doesn't seem to be the root of all evil these days among those of power in America.

SandyH,

I saw that too.

It seems that from what I've read there's still far more concern about abortion than poverty or even the environment.

(And Richard Land needs to take not only Statistics 101 he needs a refresher course in political science to learn how slavery ended.)

I think the FRC crowd is on the periphery of evangelical voters.

I see the Republicans are giving the poverty issue a big boost with their 2.2% COLA for Social Security in the face of rising food and fuel costs.
Since the COLA for military retirement pay usually follows the SS COLA pretty closely, all of a sudden I don't feel so good.
People might ignore somebody else's poverty, but when it comes to your own folks, it gets personal.
Most of the poor people I know are to broke to travel very far to conferences, and too busy working two jobs to go anyway. We just need to get them to the polls.
Jim Wallis is giving many of the Evangelicals a way out from the single-issue-voting issues that the Republicans thought they had them locked into. The poverty and SCHIP issues fit in with the social justice teachings that the Catholic Church is pushing as well.
Provided the Limousine Liberals don't get stupider and start pushing their pet "screw everybody we know better than you do" single-issue-voter-issues there'll be a lot of religious people voting Democratic in 2008, even if the hard core continues to vote single-issue.
After all, the margins for Republicans getting elected were pretty narrow no matter how much they claimed it was a "landslide".

The Republicans here say they would vote for an independant if they just slightly leaned toward the right. This would be a good time for an independant to run. I believe the Republicans deserve what is happening to them. They came in like a tornado when they got all branches of Government in the Majority in 2000. No one has seen anything like it in our lifetime. Crime and immorality, you name it and they were doing it with a determination to not let the FBI or any Judge stop them.